Right now, billions of neurons in your brain are working together to generate a conscious experience.

Right now, billions of neurons in your brain are working together to generate a conscious experience — and not just any conscious experience, your experience of the world around you and of yourself within it. How does this happen? According to neuroscientist Anil Seth, we’re all hallucinating all the time; when we agree about our hallucinations, we call it “reality.”

2015 to 2017 | 1st phase
This research is complete, the results will soon be published in the Media and Scientific Press,
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2018 | 2nd phase
Study on people with psychological problems and their reaction on op art.
Collaboration: Psychiatric Cabinet of Lausanne. In collaboration with the CHUV Neuroscience Laboratory

Scientists can see and explore these wandering neural traces in 3-D, in the most extensive map of mouse brain wiring yet attempted. The map – the result of an ongoing effort by an eclectic team of researchers at the Janelia Research Campus – reconstructs the entire shape and position of more than 300 of the roughly 70 million neurons in the mouse brain. Previous efforts to trace the path of individual neurons had topped out in the dozens.

“Three hundred neurons is just the start,” says neuroscientist Jayaram Chandrashekar, who leads the Janelia project team, called MouseLight for its work illuminating the circuitry of the mouse brain. He and colleagues expect to trace hundreds more neurons in the coming months – and they’re sharing all the data with the neuroscience community.

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MouseLight generates complete morphological reconstructions of individual neurons from datasets of whole mouse brains imaged at sub-micron resolution. We provide an interactive web platform called NeuronBrowser for anyone to explore, search, filter and visualize the single neuron reconstructions.